Wire Frames Sculpture by Thomasraschke
How can a plastic form be described by simple bent lines in space? The artist employs very different methods from those of the engineer or mathematician. To depict a bowl, he needs only an ellipse and an arc of a circle.
The artist thrives on the confluence of abstraction and meaning.
“Of particular importance to me is this question: how many lines are necessary to describe the edges and surfaces of an object in space? There is always a compromise between the sum of lines and plasticity, the ideal balance lying somewhere between an austere economy and the luxury of detail. Consider a ball, for instance. How many circles are necessary to depict it? Two? Three? Or does it need meridians–lines of longitude and latitude–like on a globe? With these we can grasp the ball’s surface, but what if we want to view both the interior and exterior simultaneously” ?
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